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Poll: Would you give up working if you won €4.5 million on the Lotto?

The winning ticket for last night’s jackpot was sold in Dun Laoghaire.

THERE WAS ONE winning ticket sold for the €4.5 million Lotto jackpot last night.

It is unknown whether or not it was won by a single person or a syndicate, but we do know that it was bought in a post office in Dun Laoghaire.

A life-changing amount of money to be sure, but would it cause to give up your job, either for a certain period of time or permanently?

Today, we’re asking you: Would you give up working if you won €4.5 million on the Lotto?


Poll Results:

Yes (11500)
No (4096)
For a short time, but then I'd go back (3897)
No interest/No opinion (254)

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    Mute Niallers
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    May 28th 2017, 9:57 AM

    I’d give up the Job but wouldn’t tell the wife. She’d just be giving me jobs to do instead if she knew.

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    Mute Aaron Gibson
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    May 28th 2017, 11:22 AM

    @Niallers: Just go out in the morning dressed for work and drive around in the bugatti you have hidden around the corner.

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    Mute James
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    May 28th 2017, 11:23 AM

    @Niallers: just tell her who’s boss

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    Mute Neal Ireland Hello.
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    May 28th 2017, 11:32 AM

    @Niallers: If she gives you jobs you can just subcontract them.

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    Mute Sham K
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    May 28th 2017, 11:40 AM

    @Niallers: Guaran f**k*ng teed

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    Mute Mary Walshe
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    May 28th 2017, 3:56 PM

    Lazy so and so!

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    Mute Stephen murphy
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    May 29th 2017, 9:46 AM

    @Niallers: Don’t tell her about your win, go claim it and vanish!

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    Mute Sharon Kelly
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    May 28th 2017, 9:47 AM

    I voted yes because I work long unsocial hours in a job that is physically and emotionally draining so yes I would run out the door!!! But I would get involved more with volunteering or go back to college….I don’t need the 4.5 million just pay off the mortgage and I’d be happy!

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    Mute Stephen Hand
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    May 28th 2017, 12:12 PM

    @Sharon Kelly: let me guess…. you work as a nurse? If so I do hope you’ve won. Nurses are the best.

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    Mute Elizabeth Barry
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    May 29th 2017, 7:52 AM

    @Stephen Hand: more people work long hours than nurses in Hospitals.

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    Mute Normal Josephine
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    May 28th 2017, 9:46 AM

    Depends on your age really 4.5m when you r in your 50s would definitely make early retirement possible – maybe not so easy if you are in your early 20s.

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    Mute Boganity
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    May 28th 2017, 9:51 AM

    I’d give up working over overtime

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    Mute Mark Jones
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    May 28th 2017, 11:31 AM

    @Normal Josephine: you’d surely get 2% APR on €4,000,000 which would come to €80,000 a year interest. With no mortgage you would live very comfortably on that for the rest of your stay

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    Mute cholly appleseed
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    May 28th 2017, 2:00 PM

    @Mark Jones: you’d be taxed on that though so 40k is all you would be left with

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    Mute Brian McDonnell
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    May 28th 2017, 2:33 PM

    @cholly appleseed: But with no Mortgage or rent to pay, it would virtually all be disposable income. I could very easily live on 40K a year, and I am damn sure that with some decent financial advise you could do a lot better than 2% gross a year.

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    Mute Malachy
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    May 28th 2017, 9:44 PM

    No Appleseed you would not be taxed on it, with that money you would have a limited company based in maybe Malta r Jersey . R set up a charity that does very little charity work but pay SFA in taxes like some of the culture funds

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    Mute Ciaran De Bhal
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    May 28th 2017, 9:48 AM

    €4.5m would nett you about €50k a year without touching the principal.

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    May 28th 2017, 10:02 AM

    @Ciaran De Bhal:
    Sounds a bit low TBH at 1.1%.
    I would think 2% net wouldn’t be unreasonable.

    Either way it’s enough to give someone a very good standard of living so long as they didn’t do crazy spending spending

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    May 28th 2017, 10:05 AM

    @P.J. Nolan:
    Wish they would allow some form of after post editing.

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    Mute Normal Josephine
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    May 28th 2017, 10:28 AM

    @Ciaran De Bhal: interest rates are in the toilet – negative rates in places. you would be lucky to get that much for a risk free deposit or are you willing to risk it?

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    Mute Ciaran De Bhal
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    May 28th 2017, 10:30 AM

    You might get 2% but dirt tax would take almost half of interest earned, hence my Nett 1.1% estimate.

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    May 28th 2017, 10:50 AM

    @Ciaran De Bhal:
    Fair enough I guess it depends on how much risk you are prepared to take on.
    Someone with a lump sum like that should go for a wide range from the likes of government bonds at 1% to maybe property at 5-6%
    Best of luck to him/her anyway.

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    Mute onebox
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    May 28th 2017, 10:08 AM

    I’d give up work, take a carpentry course, wouldn’t tell anyone, just let things appear slowly like new cars house extention holidays and have them all thinking how is he doing it. Evil I know but I’d enjoy looking at all the bewilderment

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    May 28th 2017, 1:12 PM

    @onebox: I can just imagine your neighbours. Oh .. see him … yeah …..drug dealer, fact. Look at the car and him only a chippie. … I heard he killed a guy … I heard it was six guys … sssh he’s passing by … Sooo, Maura, thats a hypericum plant then??

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    May 28th 2017, 5:24 PM

    @Greg Blake:
    Nice one

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    Mute Johnny Reeves
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    May 28th 2017, 10:20 AM

    I’d be on the first flight out of this banana republic to Tenerife , buy a villa and relax for the rest of my life

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    Mute Philip Mckenna
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    May 28th 2017, 12:56 PM

    @Johnny Reeves: thank god some sense at last, who’d wanna stay and here and pay top whack for everything and have half your interested robbed so they can give it to themselves in bonuses

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    Mute Joe Smith
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    May 28th 2017, 1:09 PM

    @Philip Mckenna: And walk out of court scott free when they get caught….

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    May 28th 2017, 5:26 PM

    @Johnny Reeves:
    You are making the assumption other countries don’t have similar or bigger problems

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    Mute Philip Mckenna
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    May 29th 2017, 12:17 AM

    @P.J. Nolan: mate just back from Spain pint €1-50, 3 course steak meal €9, €27 to fill his rental car with petrol and 3 bed villa with your own pool €140k pretty sure of where I’d be going what about you?

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    Mute WilhelminaMCallaghan
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    May 28th 2017, 10:09 AM

    No I would work because I enjoy it and not because I need to. That is my dream no longer to live in fear no longer scared of losing my home or not have the bills or not have food . Be able to pay for and fix my home bring my life back to normal , fix my teeth have my car fixed pay all my debts and put a fence around my home for privacy . That’s that the rest put somewhere where this lot of plastic Tory politicians can’t have .

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    Mute Rui Firmino
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    May 28th 2017, 3:31 PM

    @WilhelminaMCallaghan: 4,5 million and all you’d is fix your car and your teeth? How sad.

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    May 28th 2017, 5:27 PM

    @Rui Firmino:
    If that’s all he wants, why not?

    He’s lucky.

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    Mute Rui Firmino
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    May 28th 2017, 5:48 PM

    @P.J. Nolan: That’s one way of looking at it. But I’d say they lack imagination!

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    Mute Vic's Burd
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    May 28th 2017, 10:20 AM

    I picked yes – but not in the job I’m currently doing. I would look for one less stressful; that I really enjoy; with great holidays; make a big difference to the local community and not care about the meagre wages…

    I would easily do that now if I didn’t have the mortgage, a house in a constant cycle of repairs; one kid in college and one going into secondary…

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    Mute Bennythekid
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    May 28th 2017, 10:13 AM

    i’d nearly have to keep on the job.By the time the mansion and the luxury yacht on the man made lake would be completed with the ferrari outside the door there wouldn’t be much change not to mention the wife getting the face and hair done every 2nd day.

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    Mute Paddy Downey
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    May 28th 2017, 10:14 AM

    Your title should just read “How much money is enough?”, or “do you like your job?”

    Anyone, of any age, could retire on an upper/middle class lifestyle with half of that win – and work on some hobbys or volunteer work instead.

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    May 28th 2017, 9:49 PM

    @Paddy Downey: Hi Paddy

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    Mute Jonathan Baum
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    May 28th 2017, 9:52 AM

    The money would have to be invested very carefully to enable the winner to give up work.

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    Mute Kershie
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    May 28th 2017, 10:06 AM

    if won when 30 years of age, you would have 90k a year ( tax free) to spend until you’re 80! Far more than most couples would take in while both working full time. So no, i don’t think you would have to invest that carefully to give up work.

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    Mute Mumpsimus
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    May 28th 2017, 10:38 AM

    @Kershie: don’t forget DIRT on the interest

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    Mute Philip Mckenna
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    May 28th 2017, 12:53 PM

    @Kershie: I know like wtf r people on about, you’d have to invest it wisely to last yeh?? How much r these people on? Think unless ur job is crucial to society then u should have to give up your job, remember man won few years ago and went back to driving an for deliverys!!! With so many unemployed that’s so wrong

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    Mute Kevin Farrell
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    May 28th 2017, 1:04 PM

    @Mumpsimus: There’s no DIRT on the Principal:

    €4.5 million / 50 years = €90,000 per year

    Of course that doesn’t take into account inflation. €90,000 in 50 years time won’t have the same value as it does today!

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    Mute P.J. Nolan
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    May 28th 2017, 5:29 PM

    @Kevin Farrell:
    Do you have kids?

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    Mute Eugene Tyson
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    May 28th 2017, 10:20 AM

    Absolutely – and if you do win, try not to tell too many people. You’ll have more friends than you ever new! Take the 4.5 million or whatever you win, and enjoy it. It’s more than enough for the rest of your life.

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    Mute Red hurley
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    May 28th 2017, 10:21 AM

    YES EFFING YES!

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    Mute Chris Kirk
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    May 28th 2017, 10:12 AM

    Buy some property and set up a business maybe if I was younger.

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    May 28th 2017, 11:53 AM

    I’d imagine that apart from the material gain which we can all see arising, the best part would be carrying on your life knowing you are secure and should not have to give your remaining years to work and also interacting with family friends and even strangers who are like you were before, totally conditioned in thought and behaviour by their limited means. The advantage you’d have is that most people with money were brought up with it and do not appreciate it like a person who never had it.

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    Mute Alan Scott
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    May 28th 2017, 10:53 AM

    Would give it to the water protesters so they could pay their charges . LOL

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    Mute Brian Finnerty
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    May 28th 2017, 11:19 AM

    Or get them a job lol

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    Mute eastsmer #IRExit
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    May 28th 2017, 10:19 PM

    @Brian Finnerty: Because everyone who protested against the water charges were unemployed NOT

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    Mute Paul Culligan
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    May 28th 2017, 11:29 AM

    I’d only decide after donating to institutions that assisted me throughout my life, but I could tell you now, not one red cent would the banks or government get. Fcuk the Interest. I’d get more satisfaction knowing that I was hitting back.

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    Mute Stephen
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    May 28th 2017, 7:42 PM

    Anybody who doesn’t give up working after Winning €4.5million should have the money taken back of them and then give it to someone that’s gonna feckin enjoy it like me

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    Mute Bob Moloney
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    May 28th 2017, 10:58 AM

    Yes ,and go back to collage full time

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    Mute Gagsy 99
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    May 29th 2017, 9:52 AM

    @Bob Moloney:
    Fairy niche market, that.
    I don’t see too many websites or advertisements for collage services.
    Maybe you could diversify into mosaics at some stage.

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    Mute Shane Kinsella
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    May 28th 2017, 1:19 PM

    Gone in an instant. See ya later. Get off this banana boat. No irish bank would ever see a cent of that money if I could help it.

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    Mute Brian McDonnell
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    May 28th 2017, 2:08 PM

    They say being rich changes you, but I think it also changes the people around you. If your work colleagues find out you’ve won the lotto then you can expect loads of requests to donate to some charity or other and loads of sob stories about how little Johnny and Mary have no shoes, or clothes, or school books, or the latest iPhone or fidget spinners and how if they don’t get them, it is all your fault……..You may have no choice but to quit work.

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    Mute Ariana
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    May 28th 2017, 12:15 PM

    Quit the job, invest in property, live of that and do some volunteer work to keep busy.

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    Mute Ben Coughlan
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    May 28th 2017, 10:35 AM

    Id buy a few houses, give them to family, and take my parents on a long, well deserved holiday. But after that Id be straight back to work. =)

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    Mute Paul Cunningham
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    May 28th 2017, 2:29 PM

    Depends on the job, if I was doing something I really enjoyed and for a company with goals beyond mere existence, I would see no reason not to keep doing that. You do need to keep yourself occupied after all. If it’s the dead end job with nothing to offer but more BS, then I would see myself spend time away, learning new courses and performing new activities knowing there is financial security.

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    Mute Jonathan McCoy
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    May 28th 2017, 4:51 PM

    Yes I’d give it up. Someone less fortunate who needs it could have it, leaving me to concentrate on volunteering and enjoying life.

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    Mute clad
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    May 28th 2017, 11:52 AM

    Compile a detailed list of “what I would do if I won the lotto”
    And then see how many of these things/life changes really require you to be rich to do.

    I’ll do mine tomorrow, have to go to work now….

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    Mute Andy Lawrence Moore
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    May 28th 2017, 10:05 AM

    I would be impelled to work, to make sure the Cash is utilised in a proper sustainable fashion !

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    Mute Dave O Keeffe
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    May 28th 2017, 8:08 PM

    Take a break, move and set up a business

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    Mute Rob Cahill
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    May 29th 2017, 12:10 PM

    I’d give up this job but start my own record label. There are a few Irish bands being overlooked because they are not connected to certain cliques. Also I’d get a nice new bit of Lino for the kitchen.

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    May 28th 2017, 9:18 PM

    I would quit the job and blow the lot of the cash as quickly and ridiculously as I could. Then go looking for a job of some kind when it’s gone.

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